FRANCE: The Death of Oradour

The inns were crowded, and nearly every
farmhouse had guests in the little French town of Oradour-sur-Glane,
near Limoges. A special distribution of tobacco rations had brought
many farmers in to town. Children, evacuated from Nice and Bordeaux,
sat down to the midday meal with weekending parents and relatives. At
the Hotel Milord (Léon Milord, Prop.), lamb stew, a specialty of the
house, was being served with a light, dry wine. There was excitement in
the air and a buzz of conversation around the tables that sunny
Saturday in 1944: just four...